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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Mayhew say is difficult or impossible?
(a) To catalogue all the various ways to earn a living.
(b) To catalogue all the various ways to turn criminal.
(c) To write a book that fails to cover the morally deficient.
(d) To write a book that is fair to those who are morally defective.

2. What did the mother of the magician do to the family library?
(a) Donated the library to the London museum.
(b) Burned it when she was delirious and thought books were evil.
(c) Nothing.
(d) Sold it all off.

3. When did the magician's father die?
(a) He was still alive at the time of the interview.
(b) When the magician was 25.
(c) When the magician was 2.
(d) When the magician was 10.

4. What did Mayhew call the fact that many would rather starve than accept charity?
(a) Stubborn.
(b) Admirable.
(c) Ignorant.
(d) Stupid.

5. What does Mayhew say separates animals from plants?
(a) Nothing.
(b) Mobility.
(c) The force of breath.
(d) The necessity of finding food.

6. Why did the clown stay a clown if he did not like doing so?
(a) He was involuntarily apprenticed to a clown and he could not break the contract.
(b) It was better pay.
(c) He couldn't get other work.
(d) His father wanted him to do it.

7. What puppeteer did Mayhew interview?
(a) A friend who went to school with him when he was a boy.
(b) A former gentleman's footman.
(c) His own brother.
(d) His own cousin.

8. What had recently become illegal in London?
(a) Pornography including obscene books and pictures.
(b) Gerrymandering.
(c) Tobacco use.
(d) Alcohol use.

9. According to the author, how did the gypsy women make money?
(a) Tattooing.
(b) Taking in wash.
(c) Fortune telling.
(d) Prostitution.

10. How many visits per day did each missionary make on average?
(a) 2.
(b) 8.
(c) 12.
(d) 3.

11. What areas have the most prostitution?
(a) In the industrial sections.
(b) Away from the police stations.
(c) In the wealthier sections where men could afford to pay.
(d) Those frequented by sailors.

12. What did the casual ward provide?
(a) Guidance.
(b) A place to stay for a maximum of six months.
(c) Food and shelter for 24 hours only.
(d) Job search assistance.

13. How many civil servants does he cite?
(a) 500,000.
(b) 42,000
(c) 200,000.
(d) 20,000

14. What must someone who is physically or mentally unable to work do?
(a) Rely upon others or charity.
(b) He says he does not know what should be done about them.
(c) Find some small thing of which they are capable.
(d) Be taken care of by the government.

15. What did 307 poor people do for the first time?
(a) Found a job.
(b) Talked to a Priest.
(c) Learned to read.
(d) Attended church.

Short Answer Questions

1. How did she pay for her desires?

2. Where does the puppeteer perform his Punch and Judy show?

3. To what does Hemyng say the theater, fireworks, low lodging houses, drinking, smoking, the music hall and blasphemy contribute?

4. On the average, how many tracts did each person accept when they were being handed out?

5. How does Mayhew describe the Punch and Judy show?

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